Friday's Miscellany 01-11-2008

Air University

• Shortingchanging the Joint Fight? An Airman’s Assessment of FM 3-24 and the Case for Developing Truly Joint COIN Doctrine. MGEN Charles J. Dunlap, Jr. USAF.
  

American Enterprise Institute

• A Chance to Rein In North Korea.
  
• Europe and Islam.
  
• France: Europe's Counterterrorist Powerhouse.
  
• Is Iraqi Kurdistan a Good Ally?

BASIC

• Iran Update, No. 111.
  

Brookings Institution

• Applying the Lessons of Bosnia in Iraq: Whatever the Solution, Property Rights Should be Secured.
  

Center for American Progress

• Four Ticking Time Bombs.
  
• A New Strategy to Spur Energy Innovation.
  

Center for Defense Information

• Prospects for Russian-American Missile Defense Cooperation: Lessons from RAMOS and JDEC.
  

James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

• Top Ten Most Significant Events & Trends of 2007.
  

Center for Security Policy

• Colombia's Uribe Unmasks the FARC.
  
• Purple Heart in the War of Ideas?
  

Center for Security Studies (CSS)

• Climate Change and Security Policy.
  
• Environment-Related Conflicts: Balancing Ecology and Politics.
  

Center for Strategic and International Studies

• Breaking the Stalemate in Kenya.
  
• The Patterns in Violence and Casualties in Iraq 2007: The Need for Strategic Patience.
  
• Security and Stability in the Greater Middle East.
  

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• HIV Prevention Strategic Plan: Extended Through 2010
• Index page
  
• PDF of report
  

Congress. House Oversight Committee

• Information Security Breach at TSA: The Traveler Redress Website.
  

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

• Monthly Budget Review.
  
• Society of Government Economists Distinguished Lecture on Economics.
  

Department of Defense. Inspector General (DOD IG)

• DoD Initiatives for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction.
  

Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General (DHS IG)

• DHS’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office: Progress in Integrating Detection Capabilities and Response Protocols.
  

Foreign Policy Research Institute

• The Global ‘Go-To Think Tanks’: The Leading Public Policy Research Organizations in the World.
  
• Mind the Gap: Post-Iraq Civil-Military Relations in America.
  
• Tools of Statecraft: Diplomacy and War.
  
• Understanding Kenya.
  

Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• Audits of Public Companies: Continued Concentration in Audit Market for Large Public Companies Does Not Call for Immediate Action.
  
• Defense Acquisitions: Departmentwide Direction Is Needed for Implementation of the Anti-Tamper Policy.
  
• Federal-Aid Highways: Increased Reliance on Contractors Can Pose Oversight Challenges for Federal and State Officials.
  
• Freight Transportation: National Policy and Strategies Can Help Improve Freight Mobility.
  
• Information Security: IRS Needs to Address Pervasive Weaknesses.
  
• Maritime Security: Federal Efforts Needed to Address Challenges in Preventing and Responding to Terrorist Attacks on Energy Commodity Tankers.
  
• Nuclear Nonproliferation: DOE's Program to Assist Weapons Scientists in Russia and Other Countries Needs to Be Reassessed.
  
• Posthearing Questions Related to Federal Agencies' Activities regarding the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act.
  
• "U.S. Financial Condition and Fiscal Future Briefing" by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, before the Rotary Club of Birmingham, Alabama. January 9, 2008.
  

Heritage Foundation

• Kenyan Election Signals Need to Overhaul U.S. Policy Toward Nascent Democracies.
• Latin America: A Wish List for 2008.
  
• The President's Middle East Trip: An Opportunity to Promote Security, Freedom, and Peace.

Human Rights Watch

• Libya: Rights at Risk.
  
• "You Can Detain Anyone for Anything": Iran’s Broadening Clampdown on Independent Activism.
  

Institute for Science and International Security

• North Korea's Plutonium Declaration: A Starting Point for an Initial Verification Process.
  

International Crisis Group

• Cyprus: Reversing the Drift to Partition.
  
• THE GLOBAL "GO-TO THINK TANKS"
  

Iraq Family Health Survey Study Group

• “Violence-Related Mortality in Iraq from 2002-2007.” [New England Journal of Medicine, January 11, 2008, v. 358, no. 5, p. 484-493.
  

Jamestown Foundation

• Terrorism Focus.
  
• Terrorism Monitor.
  
• Implications of the New Kurdish-Sunni Alliance for Security in Iraq’s Ninawa Governorate By Ramzy Mardini
• Insurrection in Iranian Balochistan. By Chris Zambelis
• South Waziri Tribesmen Organize Counterinsurgency Lashkar. By Andrew McGregor
• Turkey’s Other War on Terrorism. By Gareth Jenkins
  

Joint Chiefs of Staff

• Jt Pub 3-07.3 Peace Operations 17 October 2007
  
• Jt Pub 3-28 Civil Support 14 September 2007
  

JFQ (Joint Force Quarterly)

• (2008) Issue 48, 1st Quarter
• “The Art of Strategy and Operational Warfare: Getting It Right.” (Christopher R. Davis, pp. 92-97)
• “Attacking al Qaeda’s Operational Centers of Gravity.” (David M. Witty, pp. 98-103)
• “Counterair and Counterland Concepts for the 21st Century.” (Ellwood P. Hinman IV, pp. 85-91)
  
• “Creating Shared Situational Awareness.” (Stewart Swan, pp. 51-55)
• “The Domestic IED Threat.” (John Kress; Steven Grogger, pp. 66-69)
• “Habeas Corpus and the Detention of Enemy Combatants in the War on Terror.” (James P. Terry, pp. 14-18)
  
• “The International Criminal Court: A Concept Whose Time Has Not Come.” (James P. Terry, pp. 36-40)
  
• “JLASS: Celebrating 25 Years of Educating Future Leaders.” (Sean R. Connors; Theodore P. Ogren, pp. 7-10)
  
• “Juridical Warfare: The Neglected Legal Instrument.” (Harvey Rishikof, pp. 11-13)
• “Major Joint/Combined Operations.” (Milan N. Vego, pp. 111-120)
  
• “Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate: A State within a State?” (Mark J. Roberts, pp. 104-110)
• “Rendition: The Beast and the Man.” (Kevin M. Cieply, pp. 19-21)
  
• “The Role of Targeted Killing in the Campaign against Terror.” (Peter M. Cullen, pp. 22-29)
  
• “The Science and Art of Disaster Response by the National Guard.” (Charles G. Rodriguez, pp. 77-81)
  
• “Underlying Assumptions of the National Security Act of 1947.” (Charles A. Stevenson, pp. 129-133)
  

Lexington Institute

• Gates Intelligence Reprganization Focuses on "Integration": NRO.
  
• Maritime Security.
  

National Academies Press

• Human Behavior in Military Contexts.
  
• Manpower and Personnel Needs for a Transformed Naval Force.
  

Pew Internet & American Life Project

• Online Video Audience Surges.
  

Public Interest Declassification Board

• Improving Declassification—a Report to the President.
  

Rand

• Stockage Determination Made Easy.
  

Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College

• COIN of the Realm: U.S. Counterinsurgency Strategy.
  
• Community Policing and Violence Prevention in Oakland: Measure Y in Action.
  
• The Interagency and Counterinsurgency Warfare: Aligning and Integrating Military and Civilian Roles in Stability, Security, Transition, and Reconstruction (SSTR) Operations.
  

US Institute of Peace

• Conflict-Sensitive Approach to Infrastructure Development.
  
• Framework for Success: Fragile States and Societies Emerging from Conflict.
• Keeping an Eye on an Unruly Neighbor. Chinese Views of Economic Reform and Stability in North Korea.
  
• Media and Conflict: Afghanistan as a Relative Success Story.
  
• Negotiating with the Islamic Republic of Iran.